I am happy to announce the launch of a free tool from SEOidiot, Twitter Brand Builder.

Its a basic version of a tool I use for clients in house that allows them to build followers and manage their Twitter accounts quickly and easily.

I am today giving away the free version to anyone who wants to use it on the understanding that it will be used responsibly.

I like Twitter and I have no interest in allowing people to abuse them, this tool however allows you to get your clients a head start in learning and building up their Twitter account so they get some quick wins.

I am requiring people to give me their email and contact details before you will be sent the scripts but enough with the lecture and lets get started on showing you what she does!

Twitter Brand Builder

The tool was designed as a way for the busy marketing department at a client to grow a following quickly and easily without having to throw all their resource at it and is designed to get you started… Having said that they overdid it a little and grew from 200 to over 14,000 followers in 6 weeks.

I think thats a little extreme but shows what it can do.

The basic idea is to allow the system to add the followers of people who follow you and then remove anyone who doesnt follow back.

When you upload the script here is what you will see

You have options then to manage your settings, good place to start.

Put in your Username and password (Dont panic they only get stored in an xml file on your server they arent sent to me)

You can also change the number of times the script queries the Twitter API if you need to (Twitter often lower this when they have peaks of traffic and we want to play nice)

Now each time you run Add more followers it will magically add around 100 people to your account.

After a week or so you may want to unfollow some of the people who dont follow back so we have an option for that too.

“But what if I have people I want to follow even if they dont follow me back?”

We thought of that too

By choosing the Manage Whitelist option from the homepage you can simply and easily maintain a list of people that you will continue to follow no matter what: -

Sound good?

All you have to do to get this FREE version of our tool is give me your email and I will send it over as quickly as I can.

Tool Withdrawn now sorry

Once you sign up I will send the tool with full and easy instructions on how to get started (Dont worry it takes about 2 minutes to get started!)

Please do not abuse this tool or I will withdraw it. We also have a more powerful tool in house for building and managing multiple accounts across defined interest areas and offer advice and training to clients and agencies wishing to use Twitter as part of your marketing mix or community strategy.

Thanks

Paul

I just changed my avatar to a new toon style one.

Here it is with a pic of me to compare…

** WARNING MAY INDUCE LAUGHTER ***

And here it is in Twitter

And here are a few more I have supplied people with: -

Joost

Rob Kerry

If you want one let me know and ill give you a price @seoidiot

Just read this post about how to spot people with fake follower counts on twitter.

Interesting article but as usual the boy scout brigade arent thinking it through.

Its not as easy as they make out, to illustrate that let me show you three graphs from twittercounter then ask you to guess which is faked…

I know these stats because I am in control of all three accounts here (and many more hehe)

OK now 1 of those is real… but its not necessarily the one you think…

With SES London fast approaching I thought I would share some quick tips on what to do and what to avoid when using Twitter at the conference: -

1. Dont tweet everything
Seriously we dont need to know your every movement (literally)

2. Use Twitter to meet people
When your at the event make sure people know where you are at set times so you can meet up. Its great to be able to tweet “hey anyone at SES meeting for a drink tonight?” and hey presto you have people to drink with!

3. Try to avoid tweeting too much drunk
Its very funny for everyone else but tweeting every part of the evening once you have had that 10th pint is probably a bad idea overall.

4. Follow the speakers of sessions you attend
Its great to be able to attend a session and then afterwards ask the speaker the odd question about their presentation. Most people are helpful and in my opinion you can never know enough clever people.

5. Dont fake it
I know of quite a few people who have left the conference or didnt even go and yet pretend they are attending by following the chatter on twitter and chipping in with fake tweets.
Kinda sad and afterall if you arent making connections at the event why the hell are you bothering?

Hope they help – Anyone think of any more?

Someone pointed me towards a great service for those addicted to Twitter.

Its called Twitter Counter and it counts your followers over a period giving a cool little graph and the handy badge that you see now on my sidebar.

Looks like my count is growing at a decent rate nowadays, hope it carries on that way!